It's always been really shallow in Gatun Lake. I used to work on cruise ships that did the Panama Canal, and we used to get stuck behind cargo ships that ran aground and had to be towed off with tugs quite often. It doesn't take much of a drop in rainfall to make the canal too shallow for ships to transit.
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Panama Canal to cut daily ship traffic as drought worsens from El Nino | Spyke
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what? climate change will hurt business too??
So another snarl in the supply chain, on top of Iran's and Ansar Allah's restrictions on other sea traffic. Is that good? 🤔
It's always been really shallow in Gatun Lake. I used to work on cruise ships that did the Panama Canal, and we used to get stuck behind cargo ships that ran aground and had to be towed off with tugs quite often. It doesn't take much of a drop in rainfall to make the canal too shallow for ships to transit.